Gustavo Aguerre
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Gustavo Aguerre, born 1953 in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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, Argentina, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, photographer, curator
Curator
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, writer, theatre designer. After leaving Argentina he moved to Germany studying at the Munich Art Academy between 1974 and 1976.
In collaboration with his wife, Ingrid Falk
Ingrid Falk
Ingrid Falk is a painter, installation artist and curator. In 1992 formed the art collective FA+ in collaboration with her husband, Gustavo Aguerre...
, he set up an art collective in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
called FA+ in 1992. Amongst the artists who have worked with FA+ are Nicola Pellegrini
Nicola Pellegrini
Nicola Pellegrini is an artist, curator, and architect; a conceptual artist working with photography, installation and video....
, Otonella Mocellin
Otonella Mocellin
Ottonella Mocellin is an Italian photographer and video artist. She often works with text and her work includes sound installation, performance and site specific projects...
, Daniel Wetter, Lennie Lee
Lennie Lee
Lennie Lee is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.-Life and career:Lennie Lee is a British artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college in London before winning a scholarship to study philosophy at Christ...
. Aguerre and Falk have worked on a number of site-specific installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
throughout Europe.
These involve large -scale installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, photographic projections, sculptures, video
Video
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installations in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
. He has exhibited in museums and private galleries, including the Italian Pavilion Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
in 1999, Malmo Museum in 1996, The Rich and Famous Gallery, London in 1998, the Galeria Milano in 1999, ARCO
ARCO
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in 2000, The Museo bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and the Konstnarhuset, Stockholm, the Sternersenmuseet, Oslo, the Tirana Biennial in 2001, Reykjavik Art Museum in 2002 and the National Center of Contemporary Art in 2005